A dynamic way to target Microsoft Purview retention, auto-labelling or communication compliance policies, where a query on attributes such as department selects the users, groups or sites and is re-run every day. A static scope is the fixed alternative.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Purview
Family of Microsoft products for data governance, security and compliance. Its Data Map stores only metadata, such as lineage, schema and classification, never the data itself.
- Communication Compliance
Purview insider-risk tool that flags messages in email, Teams or Copilot interactions that may be inappropriate or breach regulations so reviewers can respond; DLP policies sit elsewhere.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Static scope
A Microsoft Purview policy scope that targets a whole location or named users, groups or sites to include or exclude, with no query involved. Unlike an adaptive scope, it does not pick up newcomers automatically, so they have to be added manually.